Reviewed by Larry

To read "Ancestral Fair" is to be taken on an unpredictable journey to the Otherworld. Jango dies in a car accident and his spirit is delivered to heaven or hell, he is not sure, and he is worried. He is met by an odd cast of characters and shown how to expand his spirit, leaving his body behind. He purges his mind of his faults and short-comings, and inherits the knowledge of his origin and of the future of humanity.

It is an engaging read, but the prose is coarse and stilted, and I kept expecting to hear "...and he woke up and it was all a dream." The story flows well, though it really doesn't go anywhere. Jango moves from dimension to dimension and the effect is well written and believable, but the outcome is disappointing. To the authors credit, the concept of the afterlife is well thought out and detailed, and seemingly without fault; perhaps too much so in some places, in that the story is given to a tutorial air rather than one of fantasy.

I think some earlier reference to the connection between the internet and immortality could have sewn this story into an effective and thought provoking piece. Curious? Read it.